The project also kept residents' concerns about giant retailers in mind.

That will make it much harder for several giant retailers already under severe pressure.

The giant retailer reveals to the outside world relatively little about activities in its stores.

If its calculations are wrong, however, those spending decisions could come back to haunt the giant retailer.

But would you welcome a giant retailer such as Wal-Mart in your own country?

But, he added, because the deluge from Kids has just begun, tougher times lie ahead for the giant retailers.

No state and city subsidies or tax abatements were offered to lure the giant retailer.

Such a delay may seem insignificant, but the amount of money flowing through a giant retailer quickly adds up.

Wal-Mart, the giant retailer that racked up $218 billion in sales last year, prefers to send them down the river.

It was the kind of pro-Wal-Mart comment the giant retailer might write itself.

Less than two months later, the chain was acquired by Kmart for a sum the giant retailer did not disclose.

The giant retailer acknowledged last week that imported clothing had been displayed as domestic merchandise at some of its 2,000 stores.

The giant retailer saved money through efficient manufacturing and distribution, enabling it to offer prescription drugs at lower prices.

But the giant retailer has made a push in the last year to sell more liquor, along with beer and wine, in its stores.

An Arkansas judge has found the giant retailer guilty of selling merchandise below cost in an effort to drive local competitors out of business.

The giant retailer has said in the past that Prodigy probably does not fit in with its refocused strategy.

The giant retailer reported second-quarter profits of $2.63 a share, compared with 85 cents a share for the quarter a year ago.

The giant retailer also agreed to invest nearly $425 million to build the dwindling stock of Galerias and to modernize it.

The company's orange logo will not appear on the Olympic athletes' uniforms, of course, and television commentators probably won't even mention the giant retailer's name.

In addition to balky consumers, giant retailers like Wal-Mart are increasingly opposed to price increases.

The apparel rebirth relied on expensive computer systems tying giant retailers more tightly to selected suppliers.

This month, it is to consider the giant retailer's proposal to build a store on the site of the Ryerson Tull plant.

Yet Europe's incongruities are sufficiently confounding - and so deeply seated - that even these giant retailers can hardly expect to call all the shots.

By the time Mr. Martinez takes over, Sears will be largely reduced to its historic role of a giant retailer.

But the Saks Clearinghouse segment of the giant retailer's business has been expanding rapidly since the first was opened outside Philadelphia in the late 1980's.